Reviews gender scholarship most pertinent to professional communication as well as recent articles on professional communication that contribute to gender scholarship. Topics include gender and writing, reading, speaking language choice, visual communication, collaboration, content analysis, management, history and case studies. (NH)

Analyzes the interpreter's role in international business ventures. Presents descriptive models of the role, highlights major implications executives should consider before hiring an interpreter, and poses research questions based on these implications. (SR)

Employs a systems perspective to assess progress in incorporating the concept of feedback into a coherent theory of communication in social interaction. Assesses fundamental differences between definitions of feedback as an object and as a process. Identifies conceptual, theoretical, and empirical treatments associated with those definitions.…

Systematizes the fragmented approaches to framing in political communication and integrates them into a comprehensive model. Classifies previous approaches to framing research along two dimensions: media frames versus audience frames; and the way frames are operationalized (independent variable or dependent variable). Identifies four key processes…

Presents information obtained from department heads of 148 communication departments in four-year colleges and universities across the United States. Examines data related to departments' current, expected, and desired course offerings. Suggests that communication departments are making moderate efforts to cover a broad range of…

Examines health-oriented conversations in informal, interpersonal networks. Investigates the network structure, nature of relationships, contents of interactions, and impact of support manifested in a "stay-at-home" mothers' toddlers' play group. Identifies members' roles, and characteristics of opinion leaders, and includes anecdotal…

Considers how communication scholars who write a large number of articles remains the same, despite changes to ranking methods. Finds that there is a substantial similarity between authors who are frequently cited by others and the number of articles that have been published by these authors. Discusses how the most frequently published authors of…

Describes briefly the author's research (contributing to scholarship on successful language practices in organizations) examining the conflicts, and specifically the discursive methods of solving these conflicts, faced by individuals within an organization as they negotiate competing demands. Offers a new tool (called Bracketing, Ranking, and…

Contributes to scholarship on communicative processes in employment interviewing and on cultural diversity. Discusses communication processes aligned with nondominant group membership. Presents a picture of the performance burdens that members of traditionally underrepresented groups may experience when attempting to meet traditional expectations…

Analyzes an annual executive letter written by the director of a small New Zealand business which focuses on problems. Shows how these problems serve three functions: to distract attention from more serious issues, to undermine the credibility of potential challengers, and to provide a context in which the writer can present himself and company…

Finds that U.S. managers writing letters of complaint used a direct organizational pattern and tended to state the main idea or problem first before sharing explanatory details, whereas the standard Korean pattern (written by Korean managers for whom English is a second language) was indirect and tended to delay the reader's discovery of the main…

Contributes to rhetorical scholarship by analyzing the life and work of the intellectual, quiet, enigmatic civil rights leader Robert Parris Moses. Analyzes Moses's substantive message, personal persona, and second persona as synergistic and reciprocal elements of reconstitutive identification by understanding his rhetorical goals and the…

Presents a study that asked business professionals and business faculty to critique and evaluate a set of writing samples. Analyzes results from the two groups. Finds that both groups emphasize organization, but professionals also emphasize wording/style, content, and sentence structure more than do faculty, who emphasize conciseness,…

Tests the learning-loss scale experimentally to examine the relationship between students' reports of their own learning and their performance on a standard exam. Identifies a moderately strong validity coefficient between students' performance on a recall test and reports of how much they believed they learned during a lecture. (SR)

Uses discourses on "computer-phobia" and "computer addiction" to describe the cultural work involved and marketing strategies used between 1960s-1990s regarding management of computer fear. Draws on popular discourses, advertisements, and advice literature to explore how the personal computer was successfully connected to middle-class family…